To himself



A. WHITE.

Stove Grate.

Patented Feb. 8, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 99,613, dated February 8, 1870.

COOKING-STOVE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER WHITE, of the city of Geneseo, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (look- Stoves; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part My stove is constructed in the ordinary form externally, with'the exception of the front.

. A is the fire-box. Fuel is fed into it through the feed-doors I.

B is the grate, made with two trunnions, c 0.

These trunnions enter intoreceptacles made for them in the sides'of the fire-box.

D is a double projection, extending down from the front edge of the grate.

, E is a handle or shaker, extending through front of the stove at F; and through the first of the, projections at D, and against the second one.

K are projections, extending forward from the grate, and resting upon corresponding projections tt from the front of l the fire-box R.

N is-the front of the stove, extending from the vertical line S, forward to a distance in front of this line S, forming a swell-front, and a wider opening between the grate and the front than has been hitherto employed, for the purpo'seof discharging the ashes it and cinders into the ash-box H.

The swelling of the front in this way, and, consequently, opening of the throat leading into the ashbox so wide, prevents the ashes or cinders from falling through the. doors, when they are opened, on to the hearth, but admits of their freely falling into the ashpan. l

The rear end or side of the grate is supported upon the trunnious c c, and they are made snfiiciently long to admit of a lateral motion, and the front part is supported upon the projections t t, extending from the front part of the fire-box R, by means of the oorresponding projections 70, extending from the grate.

The projections t t are wider than the correspondin g one It, and have at one a raised side, '0 c. In shaking the grate, the shaker E is inserted through the aperture F of the swell-front, and into the first of the projections D, and against'the second one. ,The shaker is then moved from rightto left, or up and down, as the case may be. The raised sides 'or edges on prevent the grate-supports K slipping off, when the grate is shoved to the left, and the trun-.

nions c c prevent its slipping off when it is shoved to the right, as thesides of the fire-box prevent it fromgoing sufliciently far to do sofi When it is desired to dump the grate, the shaker E is borne down and carried to the right. This raises the front side of the grate, and carries it to the left,

over the elevated sides v o, when the shaker E can be removed or raised up, and the grate is dumped, as

shown bythe dotted lines o, and the ashes and cinders fied.'

ALEXANDER WHITE.

Witnesses: I l i l O. E. HAWLEY,

ADAM DEEM. 

